Culture Jamming
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The Left has
been using "culture jamming" techniques for a long time. Much of what
they do is illegal or immoral, and much is plain ridiculous (read about
some of the "happenings" of the 1970s, for ex.). But the basic idea is
sound, and it's time traditionalists and conservatives got busy. We are
the new counter-culture, so act like it. But do it the Christian way:
start any project with prayer, obey the law, never do anything immoral,
clean up after yourselves, show the love of Christ, etc. Also, dress well -- not
fancy, but well. Look "cool"; don't be dowdy-looking.
Always have literature, business cards with URLs printed on them, etc.
to give to people so they can get real information that'd guide their
thinking toward sanity.
Film and photograph whatever it is you're doing so it can be put on
Youtube, Rumble, Twitter, and other social media and make a greater
impact.
Remember that the goal is to change minds and hearts -- but not
necessarily just those of the people immediately around you: be aware
of the the minds and hearts of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of
people who might be watching things online later.
Artivism:
Use
art to shake things up and get people thinking or
feeling. Leftists have been doing this for years. On the Right, we have
a street artist named Sabo. Look into what he does, and do your own
thing. Some examples of his work:
Memes:
You know what memes are. Make them, use them, spread them
around!
2-minute Videos:
Make short, powerful, well-made videos that pack a huge punch. Spread
on Youtube, Bitchute, Rumble, Twitter, Gab, Facebook, Odysee, Tik-Tok
(but do not hang out on Tik-Tok!), etc.
Ex. While an appropriate bit of music plays and old pictures of happy
families are being shown, a voice-over says "I know some things were
bad before, in years past. But I've heard old people talk about living
through the Depression, saying that though they were poor, they were
happy, and that they wouldn't have changed a thing about their
childhoods. People grew up, got married, had nice, big families. They
sat around the same table at dinner, they had fun, they traveled. They
were able to buy houses. They didn't die alone. What's happened? Everything feels so --
crazy. Nothing's making any sense. I'm afraid." The video ends with a
URL. The URL is posted also underneath the video, in the video
description, when possible.
Jam
pronouns:
Refuse
to play the pronoun game, and make it hard for those who do. Don't go
along with the "pronoun agenda"! Don't use others' special pronouns (at
least not non-satirically),
and don't give yours as the normal ones if asked what your pronouns
are. Both of those things amount to acquiescence, to compliance. Do
these things instead:
If
you are asked your pronouns, make up something
ridiculous or hard to pronounce -- and change them periodically as your
"non-binary, varying queer identity" meanders at whim. Feign anger when
your pronouns are misused or ignored. Threaten to report those who
refuse
to use your pronouns. Do report them. Cranks things up to
eleven, and use their own rules against them!
Another option: use the pronouns "I/Me/My" so that whoever speaks about
you is
forced to sound
as if he's speaking about himself and sounds illiterate in the process
(for ex., your opponent wants to tell others that you're a fascist
tool, but is forced to say "I is a fascist tool." Or he wants to say to
someone else about you "Don't talk to him; he's a Nazi," but is forced
to say "Don't talk to me; I is a Nazi."
Or use "preferred pronouns" that are politically incorrect: e.g., "My
pronouns are AllLivesMatter/CommunismKills."
Try this if you
want to be annoying: use your interlocutor's
name as your pronouns. E.g., Jenny asks you your pronouns. Tell her
your
pronouns are "Jenny" and "Jennyself."
Or, when asked for your pronouns, simply reply with "I am a man" if you
are a man, or "I am a woman" if you are a woman. If they ask again,
repeat yourself: "I am a man" or "I am a woman." Force them back to
reality.
When asked to use someone else's
special pronouns, use that
person's name instead as a replacement. Ex. someone named Andrew Brown
says his pronouns are
"Xir and xim." Instead of saying "Xir was at the store and lost xim's
wallet" say "Andrew Brown was at the store and lost Andrew Brown's
wallet." Use full names whenever possible to make it more annoying. Do
this in writing as well if you're told you must submit to "the pronoun
thing."
Another option is to use their pronouns only with a certain tone in
the voice and with literal "air quotes."
Consider using the third person singular verb conjugation when expected
to use "they" to refer to a single, known individual -- e.g., "This is
Elliot. They is the head cashier."
Yet another option is to insert the word "not" before the pronoun
someone's demanding you use (e.g., "I gave it to not xim"). If you live
in a place where the law dictates using others' preferred pronouns,
adding "not" is a work-around (they can't fine you for saying "not,"
can they?)
Jam Land
Acknowledgments:
If you're expected to make one of those land acknowledgments, tell
everyone you're speaking on lands once known as Pangaea, home of the
Pangaean people, ancestors of us all ( Pangaea is the original
supercontinent whence the other continents came).
Or go through a true litany of land-owners: "this land was once the
land of the X people, who got it from the Y people, who conquered the Z
people, etc."
Flash Mobs:
Use art
to get people's attention in out-of-the-blue ways. Ex., get a group
together to randomly sing Gregorian chant or sacred polyphony on a
campus. Have business cards ready with URLs to relevant websites where
they can learn more about traditionalism.
Happenings/Invisible
Theater:
Though these two things are supposed to
be different, they're really not. Think of them as street drama with a
purpose.
Ex. On a busy day on a college campus, with no announcements or
warning,
have a group of people slowly stack shoe boxes in an exacting manner,
as if
they are laying bricks to make a large wall. If possible, use at least
two differently-colored shoeboxes and lay them in an artistic way --
alternating colors, etc. All the while, against a backdrop of medieval
music or Gregorian chant, someone reads text about how the
great cathedrals were built, the amount of time it took, the labor and
creativity involved, and describes the beauty of some of those
cathedrals and their art. Once the wall is built, have someone else
come by and quickly
knock it all down. Everyone shouts: "It takes years or even centuries
to build; it takes seconds to destroy. Treasure what you've been
given!" (It goes without saying that all the boxes should be cleaned up
afterward.)
Ex. Free Compliment Booth: Set up a booth with a sign that says "Free
Compliments." When someone approaches, give them a (true) compliment,
and end with "and you're a child of God whose life has deep meaning and
purpose." Then hand them a card with a URL that leads to a
website that explains what that very Catholic meaning is.
Ex. Emulate Steven Crowder's "Change My Mind" segments on college
campuses, in parks, etc.
Jam identity
politics:
Shake people out of their complacency about identity
politics. As an example, look at what the comedian Alex Stein does by
assuming a leftist persona and showing up at City Council and school
board meetings and being completely ridiculous by taking leftist
premises to their logical conclusions, all with a straight face.
Ex. Make a "happening" by getting Catholics and other traditionalists
or conservatives of various ethinic backgrounds and skin tones --
Asian, African, European, Latino, continental Indian, etc. (an
ethnically-varied cast is crucial; the stunt won't work without it!) --
and having them dress in a garbled mish-mash of culturally identifiable
articles of clothing -- e.g., an African person might wear a sari,
sombrero, and cowboy boots while a white person might wear dred locks,
lederhosen, and a Chinese coolie hat, etc. Have them hurl good-natured,
hilarious ethnic jokes at each other which are received with laughter
(the jokes have to be funny!). At the end, hold up signs that read
"Learn to laugh at yourself"; "Humility!"; "Humor!"; "Love isn't
blind"; etc., while singing "Jesus loves the little children, all the
children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are
precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world."
And make the singing of the sweet but simple kid song about Jesus
beautiful; use harmony and give it a beat.
Advertising and
Billboards:
As an example, a group called "Citizens for Sanity"
have
run the following ads and billboards:
- "With great age
comes great wisdom. And Joe Biden is old enough to know that men get
pregnant too. Stand tall for progressive values this fall.” (The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ad)
- “Don’t let the
radical right put our neighborhood street gangs behind bars. Support
Joe Biden & Progressive Candidates.” (Phoenix, AZ Billboard)
- “Biology is
bigotry. No one is born a woman.” (Milwaukee, WI Billboard)
- “Violent
criminals deserve our compassion and respect. This fall, stand strong
for progressive values.” (Philadelphia, PA Billboard)
- “Restore Voting
Rights for gender fluid shapeshifting pansexuals.” (Greensoboro, NC
Billboard)
- “Vote to keep
our borders, jails, and bathrooms open. Vote Progressive.”
(Albuquerque, NM Billboard)
- “Real
progressives support violent criminals in their hour of need.”
(Phoenix, AZ Billboard)
- “If you don’t
like being mugged then YOU are the problem.” (New York, NY Billboard)
Make up flyers, print business cards with informative URLs on
them, buy a QR code people can scan to get to important URLs and put
the code in busy spaces, rent a pilot to do sky-writing for you, etc.
Get creative!
Become a
whistleblower: record them, get them on film:
If you're in a class with a prog professor, record everything. If
you're in high school with a prog teacher, record it all. If you have
to attend some woke meeting of some type, record it. If you find
something particularly interesting, get it to the O'Keefe Media Group
(https://okeefemediagroup.com/), Libs of Tik-Tok
(https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok), Andy Ngo
(https://linktr.ee/andyngo), Michael Knowles
(https://www.michaeljknowles.com/), Matt Walsh
(https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog), Tim Pool (https://timcast.com/),
Steven Crowder (https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/), and others with
megaphones.
Dealing with
Leftists in general:
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